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I am speechless. Trump brought prices down for a yearthen managed to spike it up by 100% in 2 months pic.twitter.com/GxjCvpUbze — Prof (@TheProfInvestor) March 19, 2026 Amid all this turbulence in Hormuz, the Fed kept its dot plot intact, …
via notayesmanseconomics This morning has brought something which I thought was pretty much inevitable in these times so let us get straight to it. From the Riksbank of Sweden. To provide further support to economic activity and to stabilise inflation …
Ho lee fuk. 20% inflation in bound.😅 https://t.co/658lOvOEAI — The Great Martis (@great_martis) August 29, 2025 Breaking: August PCE: .2% as expected. 2.6% yoy as expected. Core PCE 2.9% as expected. Was 2.8% last month. Very tame numbers. — QE …
Inflation at 5% and Waller's saying “we’ll wait it out.” My man’s treating CPI like a bad Wi-Fi signal. — Bossco (@BosscoQuant) April 14, 2025
by David Haggith The Fed goosed the stock market today with another Powell put, but in a slightly slier manner. Fed Chair Jerome Powell, offered some pretty peculiar surprises at the Fed’s FOMC meeting today, but not in interest policy. …
BY DAVID HAGGITH Because it has to be in order to fund Bidenomics. As Powell clasps his hands in desperate hope without any evidence to back his hope, the US Treasurer today, like the Treasurer in yesteryear, is giving a …
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said she regrets describing inflation in 2021 as “transitory,” the term several Federal Reserve and Biden administration officials used to describe the pandemic-induced price surges they initially thought would be temporary. “I regret saying it was …
BY DAVID HAGGITH The old inflation monster is returning, and it looks “transitorily” familiar: The supply chain pressures that caused the ‘transitory’ part of inflation in 2022 may be about to return if the problems in the Red Sea and …
by qtrinh3 CNBC: Wholesale inflation rose 0.5% in September, more than expected The producer price index (wholesale price) is up 0.5% month to month. Beating the expected 0.3% rise MoM for September. CPI this Thursday will be bad as well …
by DesmondMilesDant As you can see from the charts above, Invitation Homes and American Homes 4 Rent are no longer on a buying spree. This is likely due to the mortgage rate shock and COVID-19 recession.
via businessinsider: The US should expect the dollar’s share of global reserves to slowly decline, but no alternatives exist that could completely displace the greenback, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Tuesday. Her comments came during a Housing Financial Services …